A covert British Army camera used to spy on the IRA and other terrorists has appeared for sale on eBay.

The seller is asking £60 for the so-called hedge-cam that was used in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Four people have been watching the activity on the camera today which is being sold as equipment once used by the Army's notorious Special Forces Special Reconnaissance Regiment in Northern Ireland.

The cylindrical item which houses a camera, is disguised in dark green and grey camouflage and a security source told Belfast Live: "These covert cameras could be put almost anywhere and everywhere particularly from the late 1970s to end of Operation Banner.

The spy camera was often hidden in undergrowth

"You can see how one still has the camouflage attached which would have been used in the countryside.

"Normally they would be buried at the side of the road, in a hedge, in a tree, even in the gardens of some of the men of evil. They were important pieces of equipment because if people were recorded being at their place of work or at home when a terrorist incident took place, they could be immediately eliminated from interest.

"There are enough audio recordings of meeting that took place of the men of evil directing murder operations to bring them to justice 100 times over.

"We never ever understood why they were never used because the RUC got the lot. There was a specialist signals unit, the 602 signals troop located at Ladas Drive in Belfast who gathered all the intelligence including all the video recordings."